The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-19

height and portly figure He was dressed In a
silken robe and wore Chinese shoes. On the
front of his turban cleaned q great diamond
pin. He smoked cigarette calmly and gazed
in digrified and rather dsdainful way on the
assent led crowd
THE paper now called the Baltimore American
made prediction. week after the national
Constitution was signed, in 1877, that George
Washington would be the first President. The
paper also decla the Constitution one of the
greatest of works. The American now feels
justified in saying that it has long settled habit
of giving correct Information.
THOMAS A. EDISON, the fam Gus inventor will
spend the winter in California, says rumor. It
is reported that he will build winter home at
Thermslito Butte county, California and erect
fine laboratory. For several years he has
been experimenting with specimens of the the
black sand deposit found in that country, en-
deavoring to extract gold therefrom.
PROF. Lucy NJ. SALMON, the new occupant Of
the chair of history at Vassar College, began her
as an educator in Iowa. She went there
eleven years ago, a young alumna OF the Uni
versity of Michigan. and for six years was prin-
cipal of the McGregor public schools. Then she
went to be professor of English history in the
State Normal School at Terre Haute, Ind.
For two years Mr. W. w Story, the Ameri-
sculptor and author. has been busy in the
ruined palaces of the Barbarini in Rome on his
monument Francis Scott Key, author Of the
Star -spangled Banner" The announcement is
made that the work is completed and is now
the way to San Francisco. It's construction was
provided for ny the late James Lick, and it is to
be placed in the Golden Gate Park. San Fran
cisco.
CAPT ROBERT W. ANDREWS recently reached
Hartford. Conn, with his dog Fi6a. The captain
had just strolled down from Boston. He has
walked 900 miles in the last four years He
is ninety-seven years of age. He lives in Sumter,
S. c.. and left there in April to walk to Boston.
He claims to have seen all the Presidents with
the exception of Garfield. He was seven years
Nfo han h0 o1adn th0 al m for of
Washington. Captain Andrews's hearing and
oversight are perfect, and he doesn't look more
than sixty.
OF the Empress Eugene Paris correspond
emit writes "She lately at Amsterdam,
whittier she went to consult noted Ouch physi-
clan respecting the rheumatism, from viii CHI
she is q constant sufferer. An American
lady who saw her there tells me she has grown
very stout and infrm, and has lost every YES
tige of her once dazzling beauty. She is sub
ject to attacks Of insomnia during which she
will sit the whole night through before the
portrait of the Prince Imperial. and these at
tacks usually terminate in fits of weeping and
acute hysteria."
TWENTY women at the New York custom
house now inspect womens baggage brought
from abroad. These searchers are ladies of
character-such, for instance. a widowed sis
ter of ex-senator Roscoe Conkling, she being
one Of the twenty. Mrs. Martien, Cincinnati
dress maker, was put through the needles eye by
these inspectresses on Wednesday. What first
seemed amiss was packet of ''soiled clothing"
Enwrapped by the clothing aforesaid
a piece OF silk that measured 1763 yards Hav-
ing discovered the silk the inspectresses charged
upon Mrs. NJ. stronghold-her hustle In that
hive they found great COB of honey, to-wit:
Twenty-four pieces of worsted binding, five
pieces of black lace five point lace collars, fifty
four pieces of silk binding, twelve pieces of
watered silk ribbon, six jet bead ornaments,
box of perfumerY, silver watch, two pairs OF
bracelets. pair of toilet ornaments, dozen
pattern embroidered in tinse silk. thirty
yards of tnsel-e m broidered silk Grape and a
black silk dress skirt
MosT of the modern Popes, says the st. James
Gazette. have been ascetics and Leo XIII is
exception to the rule. His Holiness rises at
o'clock. alike in summer and winter; and i'm
mediatelv hn is dressed he says mass in his
private chapel. Then he ''assists" at another
mass celebrated by prelate of the household,
and at he breakfasts. Now, since two masses
cannot we'll be said in less than forty minutes, it
seems to follow that his Holiness shares his
spapal breakfast consists of coffee and two
boiled eggs. The midday dinner is simple as the
breakfast: soup, o dish which it pleases the Itai
ians TO regard a beefstake, desert and
glass of Bordeaux-of course, not the Bordeaux
which common people drink. After dinner the
/ composed of a salad and eggs and very admir-
able supper that is in a hot climate 1t is ETH
Quette for the Pope to take all his meals alone
q custom which must be very bad for the diges-
ton Leo XIII works as hard in his study
Queen Victoria does but he enjoys splendid
health for 20 old man, and he promises to
wear the tiara for many year to come.